If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.

Respectability offends my taste.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.